This is more of a theoretical question re correlation of systems. When building systems into a portfolio, it seems to me that I would want them to all have a correlation in the sense that I want a straight equity curve and that one systems drawdown is canceled by another systems run up. With this in mind, it would seem to be better to correlate the underwater equity curves and look for uncorrelated systems rather than correlating the equity curves. I have tried both methods using Excel and I found that the uncorrelated drawdown of systems gave a smoother equity curve for the portfolio.